From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 13:53:22 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] fdt: add support the ePAPR "phandle" property In-Reply-To: References: <1304704593-9067-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> Message-ID: <4DC443A2.4030808@freescale.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Grant Likely wrote: > As discussed on IRC, upstream libfdt already supports the "phandle" > property, so u-boot needs to be updated to the latest version from the > dtc.git repo on git.jdl.com. You'll still need the change to > common/fdt_support.c though. Upstream libfdt was fixed back in 2009. Why is U-Boot and Linux so outdated? Shouldn't there be a regular plan to update U-boot and Linux as libfdt is updated? I don't see how an 18-month backlog is acceptable. No offense, but this sounds like something the U-boot fdt maintainer is supposed to be doing regularly. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale